{"id":192272,"date":"2009-04-22T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/22\/a-mindset-that-bob-gates-and-his-successor-need-to-break\/"},"modified":"2009-04-22T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T04:08:00","slug":"a-mindset-that-bob-gates-and-his-successor-need-to-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/22\/a-mindset-that-bob-gates-and-his-successor-need-to-break\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mindset that Bob Gates and His Successor Need to Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SecDef Gates is looking to insource acquisition expertise into the Pentagon, hiring 4,100 people in this area by 2010, and 9,000 by 2015.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good idea, but the mindset in this article shows why it will be hard, starting with the title, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodbuzz.com\/2009\/04\/21\/hiring-1000s-for-atl-very-tough-experts\/\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Top Talent Won\u2019t Pick Pentagon for Pay<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The first assumption is that junior hires, &#8220;they won\u2019t know enough to make much of a difference for at least six or seven years,&#8221; is simply wrong.<\/p>\n<p>A good person can be online and doing good work in under 6 months, one who is merely competent can do the same in 18.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, with the expansion of internal positions at the Pentagon, the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">job prospects for outside consultants shrink accordingly<\/span>, which will both bring new people in, and dissuade people who have done a few years in there from moving into outside positions.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not going to be easy, but it will be <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">much<\/span> better than what we have now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SecDef Gates is looking to insource acquisition expertise into the Pentagon, hiring 4,100 people in this area by 2010, and 9,000 by 2015. This is a good idea, but the mindset in this article shows why it will be hard, starting with the title, Top Talent Won\u2019t Pick Pentagon for Pay. The first assumption is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,975,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-employment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}